Timing glitch during startup of forwarded connection?

[Tom Lane]

Markus Friedl <markus at openbsd.org> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:17:32PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I have been chasing a reliability problem that seems to boil down to
>> this: sshd needs a certain amount of time delay between opening a
>> forwarded connection and receiving the first data packet for the
>> connection.  Otherwise it never forwards the data.  Anyone heard of
>> such a thing, or have an idea where to look for the problem?

> there was a bug around 2.9 related to async connects + forwarding.
> however, it should be fixed in 2.9.9 and later.

Thanks for the tip.  Quick testing indicates that indeed the problem
is gone after upgrading the gateway machine's sshd to 3.0.2.

			regards, tom lane